The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is an opera house on the U.S. – Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera_House
there are beetles named after darth vader
There are beetles named after Darth Vader (Agathidium vaderi), Kate Winslet (Agra katewinsletae), Adolf Hitler (Anophthalmus hitleri), and several other celebrities.
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in the victorian era people used to say prunes
In the Victorian era, people used to say ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese’ during photographs to make themselves look more serious as they still followed the habits of painted portraiture subjects.
Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2015-11-cheese-style-curiosity-yearbook-photos.html
between 1956 and 1981 tressa prisbey built a
Between 1956 and 1981, Tressa Prisbey built a ‘village’ made out of recyled bottles in order to house her collection of 17,000 pencils.
in the 1930s the us army developed and approved
In the 1930’s, the US Army developed and approved as official national policy major war plans to invade Canada (code name War Plan Crimson) and Mexico (War Plan Green) plus others.
dr henry heimlich used his life saving maneuver
Dr. Henry Heimlich used his life saving maneuver for the first time at the age of 96 to save another retirement home resident.
– WTF Fun Fact
there exists a fontgate scandal where the former
There exists a Fontgate scandal, where the former Prime Minister of Pakistan was found guilty after the documents he submitted as proof were typed in Calibri, a font that didnt exist at the time the document was supposed to have been drafted.
the pupils of human eyes are at their largest as
The pupils of human eyes are at their largest as an adolescent and then slowly shrink until about the age of 60.
a study found that sleeping on your stomach is the
A study found that sleeping on your stomach is the most likely position to produce an erotic dream.
– WTF Fun Fact